Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes
Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.
Minnie Maddern Fiske
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
Finn Wittrock
I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
Flume
I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
Tamsin Greig
I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.
Caitriona Balfe
I was a Girl Scout!
Kat Dennings
It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
Jacob Epstein
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
A. P. Herbert
It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
Gabe Newell
I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.
Ed Walsh
I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
Beck
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
Manuel Puig
The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.
Dave Grohl
Nirvana
It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.
Patrick Kane
We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
Oswald Chambers
Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
Taraji P. Henson
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Saint Francis de Sales
Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.
Minnie Maddern Fiske
